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Courses of Instruction

PREPROFESSIONAL COURSES

Freshman Year

Chemistry 1A-1B. General Chemistry. (4-4)

1A. Stoichiometry and introduction to structural chemistry. The laboratory takes up stoichiometry and thermochemistry.

1B. Reversible reactions, equilibrium constants and their dependence on temperature and pressure, and electrical cells. The laboratory takes up equilibria of weak acids and sparingly soluble salts, and electrical cells.

Psychology 1. General Psychology. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour section meeting per week. Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology.

Psychology 50. Personal and Social Adjustment. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour section meeting per week. Primarily for nonmajors. Dynamics of normal personality development. Family relationships, social adjustment, and factors modifying self-evaluation.

Mathematics 16A-16B. Analytic Geometry and Calculus. (3–3)

Three 1-hour lectures per week. Elements of analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus. The exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions. The algebra of matrices and systems of linear equations. Convexity and systems of linear inequalities. Statistics 16 is intended to follow 16A-16B.

Speech 1A-1B. First-Year Reading, Writing and Speaking. (4-4)

Three 1-hour lecture and discussion periods and one 1-hour individual conference period per week. Written and oral composition, based upon readings and discussions of major works of literature, philosophy, and science.

Political Science 1. American Government. (4)

Two 1-hour lectures and two 1-hour section meetings per week. An introduction to the principles and problems of government and the political process, with particular emphasis on American national government and politics.

Sophomore Year

Chemistry 8A-8B. Survey of Organic Chemistry. (4-4)

Two 12-hour lectures and one 3-hour laboratory per week. A survey of the important classes of organic compounds, with emphasis on materials of interest to students of the biological sciences.

Bacteriology 2. A Survey of Bacteriology. (5)

Three 1-hour lectures and two 3-hour laboratories per week.

Physics 2A-2B-2C. General Physics Lectures and Laboratory. (4-4-4)

Three 1-hour lectures, one 1-hour discussion section, and one 3-hour laboratory period per week. Elective in the College of Letters and Science. Required for premedical students and students in architecture. Mechanics, properties of matter, heat, sound, light, electricity and magnetism, atomic and nuclear physics.

Physiology 1. Introductory Physiology. (4)

Three 12-hour lectures per week. Introduction to the mechanisms underlying the life
process in man.

Physiology IL. Introductory Physiology, Laboratory. (4)

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History 17A. United States History (5).

Three 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour section meeting per week.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES

First Year

Fall Quarter

Optometry 100. History of Optometry. (1)

One 1-hour lecture per week. The profession of optometry, its history and present

status.

Anatomy 102. General Human Anatomy. (4)

Two 12-hour lectures and one 41⁄21⁄2-hour lab. Prepared human dissections, models, and
microscopic slides.

Physics 106A. Geometrical Optics. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour lab. Geometrical methods applied to the optics
of mirrors, lenses, and prisms.

Statistics 2. Introduction to Statistics. (5)

Four 1-hour lectures and two 1-hour labs. Elementary treatment of basic ideas in
probability and statistical inference. Models; conditional probability; measures of loca-
tion, spread, and association; binominal distribution, normal approximation. Sampling;
point estimation, some standard significance tests; power.

Winter Quarter

Physiological Optics 101. Anatomy of Eye and Orbit. (5)

Three 12-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. The macroscopic and
microscopic anatomy of the orbit, its content and adjacent structures. The cranial
nerves associated with vision and their cortical connections. The blood supply to the
eye and orbit. The embryology of the eye.

Physics 106B. Physical Optics. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour laboratory. Phenomena of diffraction, inter-
ference, and polarization of light, and their application.

Physiology 112. General Physiology. (4)

Three 12-hour lectures. Cellular mechanisms underlying biolectric, secretory and
contractile phonemena in living organisms.

Elective. See section on electives.

Spring Quarter

Physiological Optics 102. Diotrics of the Eye. (5)

Four 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. The eye as an optical
instrument; image forming properties, optical defects, and image quality; dimensions;
optical constants, schematic eyes, cardinal points, ametropia, accommodation, retinal
image size, blur circles, diffraction, aberrations, scatter, and absorption.

Optometry 104. Ophthalmic Optics. (3)

Two 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour laboratory per week. History of the develop-
ment of lenses and spectacles; optical properties of lens materials; the theory and
design of spectacle lenses. Laboratory exercises in lens cutting, edging, leveling,
drilling, mounting, neutralization, and frame fitting and adjusting.

Physiology 113. Mammalian Physiology. (4)

Three 12-hour lectures. Function of organ systems in man and other mammals.
Physiology 113L. Mammalian Physiology Laboratory. (2)

One 42-hour laboratory.

Second Year

Fall Quarter

Physiological Optics 125. Vegetative Functions of the Eye. (5)

Three 1-hour lectures and two 2-hour laboratories per week. Consideration of the
physiology of the cornea and lids; formation and function of lacrimal fluid; formation,
function and drainage of the aqueous humor; intraocular pressure; metabolism and
circulation in the eye; physiology and biochemistry of the lens; iris and pupil; accom-
modation; photochemistry. The characteristics of drugs producing miosis, mydriasis,
cycloplegia, accommodative spasm, and anesthesia of ocular surfaces.

Optometry 105. Ophthalmic Optics. (3)

Two 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour laboratory per week. Continuation of Op-
tometry 104.

Optometry 127. Refraction of the Eye. (5)

Three lectures and two 2-hour laboratories. Optical and biological variables deter-
mining the refractive state of the eye. Lectures and laboratory assignments on subjec
tive, and objective techniques of measurement and methods of correcting refractive
anomalies: skiametry, keratometry, ophthalmoscopy, visual acuity, subjective refrac-
tion, amplitude of accommodation.

Elective. See section on electives.

Winter Quarter

Optometry 128. Introduction to Pathology. (3)

Two 12-hour classes per week. Basic pathological processes in human development,
senescence and disease. A correlated survey of disturbed function in disorders of
visceral systems, including disturbances of electrolyte and fluid balance and of meta-
bolism.

Physiological Optics 129. Motility of the Eye. (5)

Three 12-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Detailed consideration
of ocular movements; specification of direction of regard, line of sight, visual axes,
center of rotation, primary position; kinematics of the eye, Listing's Law; action of the
extraocular muscles; types of movements, reflex, saccadic, pursuit, versions, vergences;
accommodation; accommodative convergence; convergence accommodation.

Optometry 130. Optometric Analysis. (5)

Three 1-hour lectures and two 2-hour laboratories. Routine examination and case
analysis; interrogation and case history, motility, phorometry, versions, vergences, rela-
tive accommodation and the various techniques for the analysis of optometric data.
Introduction to clinical observations.

Spring Quarter

Optometry 131. Clinical Manifestations of Disease and Pharmacological

Influences on Disease and Function (3)

Two 12-hour classes. A survey of disease processes and systemic disorders with special reference to ocular implications and manifestations. The role of modern drugs in therapy and side effects of drug use, especially as they relate to the eye and vision,

Physiological Optics 132. Visual Stimuli. (5)

Three 12-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Study of visual stimuli, their nature and specification; radiometry; photometry; 'colorimetry; illumination; light sources; atmospheric scatter; effects of radiation. Color vision.

Optometry 133. Anomalies of Binocular Vision. (5)

Four 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour lavoratory. Detection, measurement, classification, etiology, symptomatology, signs and prognosis of the latent and manifest disorders of binocular fixation, both comitant and noncomitant; orthoptics and visual training. Clinical observations.

Elective. See section on electives.

Third Year

Fall Quarter

Optometry 150A. Ocular Disease. (3)

Two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory. Introduction to ocular diseases and their optometric detection; symptomatology and signs of ocular disease. External examination of the eye, pupilary reactions. Internal examination of the eye, ophthalmoscopy, biomicroscopy, tonometry; visual fields.

Physiological Optics 151. Monocular Sensory Processes of Vision. (5)

Three 12-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory. Action of visible light on the retina, visual pigments and electrical phenomena. Light sense: sensitivity, threshold, differential thresholds, luminosity curves. Effects of stimulation: single and periodic, critical frequency of flicker, light and dark adaptation, after-images, spatial and temporal induction. Form sense: visual acuity. Perception of motion.

Optometry 152. Advanced Geometric Optics. (5)

Five 1-hour lectures. Gaussian optics. Aberrations and methods of correction, chromatic aberration and dispersion, oblique astigmatism, “corrected curve" lenses, design and characteristics of ophthalmic instruments.

Optometry 453. Optometry Clinic. (3)

One 1-hour lecture and one 4-hour clinic; one 2-hour Dispensary. Optometry Clinic. Examination and prescribing of lenses to clinic patients. Dispensing of eyewear.

Winter Quarter

Optometry 150B. Ocular Disease. (4)

Two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Systematic study and classification of ocular diseases, their differentiation, and ophthalmological manage

ment.

Physiological Optics 160. Binocular Vision and Space Perception. (5)

Three 12-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Binocular integration; horopter correspondence, figure-ground relations, perception of size, shape, direction, distance, motion, time and complex patterns; information theory.

Optometry 158A. Visual Rehabilitation. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory. Aniseikonia, subnormal vision and
geriatric optometry.

Optometry 454. Optometry Clinic. (4)

Two 1-hour lectures, one 4-hour clinic, one 2-hour dispensing per week. Examina-
tion and prescribing of lenses to clinic patients, special problems in ophthalmic optics.

Spring Quarter

Optometry 150C. Ocular Disease. (3)

Two 1 hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Continuation of Optometry
150B.

Optometry 158B. Visual Rehabilitation. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Aniseikonia, low vision
and geriatric optometry.

Optometry 161. Contact Lenses. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour laboratory per week. Historical development,
physical and optical properties of contact lenses and their adaptation to the human eye,
with emhpasis on the anatomical and physiological implications.

Optometry 455. Optometry Clinic. (4)

Two 1-hour lectures, one 4-hour clinic, one 2-hour dispensing. Continuation of
Optometry 454.

Fourth Year

Fall Quarter

Optometry 178. Applied Psychology for Optometrists. (2)

Two 1-hour lectures per week. Patient management and communication, oral and
written; suggestion and hypnosis.

Optometry 479. Advanced Optometry Clinic. (5)

Three 4-hour clinics and one 3-hour dispensing. Optometric examination of patients
in the clinic performed independently by student clinicians under supervision of the
clinic staff: refraction and dispensing.

Optometry 482. Special Clinical Practice. (5)

Clinical practice in contact lenses, aniseikonia, subnormal vision, strabismus, orthop-
tics, and the detection of ocular diseases.

Physiological Optics 199. Independent Study. (1–5)

One 1-hour class per week. Independent study in physiological optics. Students will
elect either Physiological Optics 199 or Optometry 499.

Optometry 499. Special Study. (1–5)

Independent study in optometry.

Winter Quarter

Physiological Optics 199 or Optometry 499 (1)

Optometry 185. Practice Management. (4)

Three 1-hour lectures per week and two field trips per quarter. Laws governing the
practice of optometry. The establishment and management of an optometric practice;
economics, taxes, insurance, accounting methods, office design, mode of practice,
practice administration, and patient relations; professional organizations and societies.

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